Well kudos to him for being a Republican standing up for the constitutional separation of church and state.
Apparently that’s not what he’s standing up for. They’re not the right religion. When Republicans make decisions, the seeing irrational or against their normal behavior. Always assume there’s bigotry tied to it.
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So, the authors of the article irresponsibly chose not to include this guy’s very public extremist rhetoric, but here’s a quote directly from the press release:
"Today, Oklahomans are being compelled to fund Catholicism. Because of the legal precedent created by the Board’s actions, tomorrow we may be forced to fund radical Muslim teachings like Sharia law. In fact, Governor Stitt has already indicated that he would welcome a Muslim charter school funded by our tax dollars. That is a gross violation of our religious liberty. "
Honestly, I feel more conservatives would be against religion in schools if it was pointed out more often that implies their tax dollars supporting religion in general. Why should some teacher lead prayers on our dime?
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I mean, he’s a protestant evangelical, so he’s not a big fan of catholicism, but alongside his fearmongering about muslims, he definitely shows plenty of preference for his particular religion. Here’s another quote from the press release:
“I would prefer we focus on reading proficiency so they can read the Bible at home with their family. That’s where religion is best taught: in homes and in churches, with the loving guidance of parents and pastors”
I’m certainly glad he’s fighting these religious charter schools, for whatever reason, but I think it’s silly to pretend his motivations are anything but bigotry and bias toward his favorite sect.
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The language he uses definitely shows a preference for a specific religion. He’s clearly keeping his religion out of school only because it would allow the religions he doesn’t like in too, which is the entire point of the post you first responded to.
He seems to grasp that all religions should be prohibited from getting state funds.
From the article:
“Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this state will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups,” the lawsuit states.
not with my fucking tax dollars you aren’t. good on this guy for fighting back
He happens to be on the right side of this issue, but from the totally wrong direction. He’s against it because those scary Muslims might open a school too.
Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this State will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups…For example, this reckoning will require the State to permit extreme sects of the Muslim faith to establish a taxpayer funded public charter school teaching Sharia Law. Consequently, absent the intervention of this Court, the Board members’ shortsighted votes in violation of their oath of office and the law will pave the way for a proliferation of the direct public funding of religious schools whose tenets are diametrically opposed by most Oklahomans.
I want to give the benefit of the doubt here and assume he knows his audience, so playing it this way ensures it gets killed.
Kind of a does the end justify the means sort of situation…
I don’t know the fella beyond this news item, so you may be right.
I wish more of us gave each other the benefit of the doubt. I refuse to believe most people are assholes… only some. Don’t let the few dominate your thoughts.
In its application, the Archdiocese said its vision is that the school “participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out."
I think this is the closest you’d ever get them on tape to admitting that they want to brainwash your kids into Evangelicals
While Catholics consider themselves evangelical, I wouldn’t lump them directly in with the greater “Evangelical” label.
That said, I highly doubt these Catholics are Jesuits out to offer a quality education considering the plan is to do an online K-12 school. Should be rejected on that alone.
Edit: Yeah, this archbishop is a Benedictine that was appointed by Ratzinger and signed off on a letter calling for an investigation into Francis. He’s one of the shitty ones.
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I’d rather drink both if I had to parse the ‘good’ catholics from the ‘bad’ Catholics.
Every Republican is for fully tax-payer funded religious schools until the phrase “tax-payer supported Muslim madrasa” is uttered. Then, it is back to the weird game of religious home-schooling and particular state-approved partially religious charter schools that are only one from religion.
Yeah it’s pretty telling that pretty much all the taxpayer funded religious stuff goes away real fast when it gets opened up to any other religion. Whether it be prayers at meetings, school clubs and programs, etc. The Satanic Temple has done a lot of that.
It’s all fun and games until The Satanic Temple show up.
then it’s a party.
I love The Satanic Temple and totally approve of their methods. Their way of trolling the Christian rights’ insufferable need to put their dicks into everything, is what I live for! They do so much good for their communities. They’re the “troll” version of humanists.
-written from inside a Christian healthcare facility
Average Catholic reaction when they see an unraped child
I think you mean catholic priest.
Meh. Doubt it. The priests do the rape, congregation claps them on. May as well simply assume anyone of the catholic faith rapes children. Easier than being nice to them.
Just like all Muslims beat their wives and all Jews care about is money? Grow up dude, stereotyping the average Joe is gross. It’s fine to mock establishments but regular people are mostly well meaning idiots.
“Just like all Muslims beat their wives and all Jews care about is money?”
Wow, Islamophobia and anti-semitism. You’re a real treat, aintcha?
I’m not surprised you fail to see how my examples relate to what you said.
Said the anti-semite islamaphobe.
I’m an equal opportunity hater, including catholics. That’s why we don’t need to insult every member of each religious group, just the groups in general. Hope you learned something today about hate, and how it’s only okay if we hate everyone equally :)
Teachers molest and rape children at a higher rate than Catholic priests. I am not sure why we seem to focus on the Catholic religion for this and ignore where it is now common. It better said, why not focus on both?
Sources?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-school/
According to this source and a few I have seen, sexual abuse is not a little but significantly higher.
Yikes what a poorly written article. The author doesn’t understand basic rationality.
The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.
Yes because the number of teachers and students is magnitudes larger than the number of Catholic children and priests. There’s a lack of proportionality here.
the federal report said 422,000 California public-school students would be victims before graduation — a number that dwarfs the state’s entire Catholic-school enrollment of 143,000.
Lol that is very dumb. We aren’t comparing Catholic schools, we are comparing the rate of abuse in Catholicism as a whole compared to the school system, and even then it should be scaled to the size of the populations.
Classic example of “don’t take everything you read on face value”. Citing big numbers sounds clever but it easily hides a lack of statistical understanding.
I’m open to a source that is mathematically and statistically sound, but this ain’t it.
I doubt the teacher’s union has the resources of the church. Nor do they have the time-tested global systematic approach to abusing children, unless common core gotcha mad.
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Based Republican W. Never thought I’d say that after dubya
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond’s warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions.
“Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this state will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups,” the lawsuit states.
In its application, the Archdiocese said its vision is that the school “participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out.”
The approval of a publicly funded religious school is the latest in a series of actions taken by conservative-led states that include efforts to teach the Bible in public schools, and to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Oklahoma’s Constitution specifically prohibits the use of public money or property from being used, directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any church or system of religion.
“Not only is this an irreparable violation of our individual religious liberty, but it is an unthinkable waste of our tax dollars,” Drummond said in a statement.
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my school to Dionysus is on hold, then
One of the very few times I agree with the elephant camp.
